Upgrading PHP 5.4.0 in XAMPP for Windows?

Question

I want to upgrade to PHP 5.4.0 in XAMPP. I'm using windows operating system. I searched on web, but there was no proper guide for this as it was released recently.

Can anyone give me some instructions on how to upgrade to PHP 5.4.0 in XAMPP (windows)?

Answer 1

1. Download the latest binary version of PHP (make sure to get the .zip package not the installer)
2. De-archive it to a directory
3. Copy the contents of the directory in the php subfolder of your XAMPP installation directory, overwriting the files which are already present
4. Overwrite the files which are already present in the apache\bin directory with the newer versions.
5. Now the trick: take the files which have a "_2" in their names (for example php5apache2_2.dll or php5apache2_2_filter.dll), copy them in the apache\bin subdirectory and remove the "_2" part, overwriting the existing files. This is necessary because by XAMPP uses Apache version 2.2 and the files with the 2 prefix are built for Apache 2.0, so you must take the files build for the newer version (which has a different plugin interface) and rename them in the filenames XAMPP expects.

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